Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, ed. Gilbert Murray, 123

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Χορός

εὐφαμεῖτʼ, ὦ

πόντου δισσὰς συγχωρούσας

πέτρας Ἀξείνου ναίοντες.
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ὦ παῖ τᾶς Λατοῦς,

Δίκτυννʼ οὐρεία,

πρὸς σὰν αὐλάν, εὐστύλων

ναῶν χρυσήρεις θριγκούς,

πόδα παρθένιον ὅσιον ὁσίας
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κλῃδούχου δούλα πέμπω,

Ἑλλάδος εὐίππου πύργους

καὶ τείχη χόρτων τʼ εὐδένδρων

ἐξαλλάξασʼ Εὐρώπαν,
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πατρῴων οἴκων ἕδρας.

ἔμολον· τί νέον; τίνα φροντίδʼ ἔχεις;

τί με πρὸς ναοὺς ἄγαγες ἄγαγες,

ὦ παῖ τοῦ τᾶς Τροίας πύργους

ἐλθόντος κλεινᾷ σὺν κώπᾳ
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χιλιοναύτα

μυριοτευχοῦς Ἀτρείδα; τῶν κλεινῶν;

Iphigenia in Tauris. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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Current edition Perseus

Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. II. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1921-1962))

Translations (3)

Iphigenia Among the Tauri Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 123 focus

Chorus

Keep a holy silence, you who inhabit the double clashing

rocks of the Black Sea !
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O daughter of Leto, Dictynna of the mountains, to your hall, to the golden walls of your temple with beautiful pillars,

I, the servant of the holy key-holder, bend my holy virgin steps. For I have left the towers and walls of Hellas , famous for horses, and
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Europe with its forests, my father’s home.
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I have come. What is the news? What is troubling you? Why have you brought me, brought me to the shrine, you who are the daughter of Atreus’ son, master of a thousand ships and ten thousand soldiers,

who came to the towers of Troy with a famous fleet?
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Iphigenia in Tauris (OCR draft) Experimental (Iphigenia in Tauris. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

No corresponding passage available

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1845; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 2, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1845. Harvard OCR compared with an independent BSB copy. Native Donner verse citations, Murray reference cards, explicitly located notes and page facsimiles. Unresolved OCR, verse divisions, unlocated notes and printed errata are documented in the source review.) — 123 focus

Du Volk am Eureinos, das du die zwei

Sich begegnenden Felsanhdhen umwohnst:¹

O Geborene Leto's,
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Bergliebende Jågerin,

Zu dem Vorhof deines Palastes

(Sie gehen ab.)

Mit der Säulen Geprång' und den Zinnen von Gold

Sez' ich den heiligen jungfräulichen Fuß,

Dienend der heiligen Schlusselbewahrerin,²
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Nachdem ich die Thurm' und die Mauern³

Roßreicher Gefild' und Europa, den Siz,

Den unsere Våter bewohnten,

Voll prangender Bäume, verlassen.

Hier sind wir; was gibt's? Was bekümmert dich so?
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Was riefest du mich zu dem Tempel daher,

Du Tochter des Manns, der Ilions Höhn

Mit den Rudern genaht in gefeiertem Zug,

Mit der Schiff Unzahl und von Kriegern umschaart,

Den gefeierten Söhnen Achaa's?⁴
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Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 123

ed. Gilbert Murray

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